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Empire Rock, Dakota County, Minnesota: 5 MSHA citations
Updated November 6, 2026. Source: US Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Open Government Data Sets.
Empire Rock is an intermittent construction sand and gravel surface mine in Dakota County, Minnesota, operated by Fischer Mining LLC with 7 employees on MSHA's record (mine ID 2103940). Since January 1, 2022 MSHA inspectors issued 5 citations and orders there with $280 in proposed penalties, and 0 accident reports were filed there, with no injury or illness cases.
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- MSHA mine ID
- 2103940
- Status
- Intermittent since December 18, 2018
- Main commodity
- Construction sand and gravel
- Mine type
- Surface
- County
- Dakota County, Minnesota
- Nearest town
- Apple Valley
- Operator
- Fischer Mining LLC
- Employees
- 7
- MSHA field office
- Duluth MN Field Office
- Citations and orders since January 1, 2022
- 5
- Significant and substantial
- 0 (0.0%)
- Closure orders
- 0
- High negligence or reckless
- 0
- Proposed penalties
- $280
- Amount paid so far
- $280
- Inspections
- 7
- Inspector hours on site
- 54
- Citations per inspection
- 0.71 (all mines 2.30)
- Accident reports
- 0
- Injury and illness cases
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Latest MSHA record
- October 28, 2026
Citations and injury cases by year
Calendar years since 2022; 2026 runs to the date of the MSHA files.
| Year | Citations and orders | Significant and substantial | Proposed penalties | Injury and illness cases |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | $133 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 | 0 | $147 | 0 |
| 2026 | 3 | 0 | $0 | 0 |
Standards cited most at Empire Rock
Sections of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations named on the citations, with the part each belongs to.
| Standard | What the part covers | Citations |
|---|---|---|
| 30 CFR 50.30 | Reporting of accidents, injuries and illnesses | 2 |
| 30 CFR 56.4104 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.15003 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
| 30 CFR 56.14132 | Surface metal and nonmetal mines | 1 |
Other open mines in Dakota County, Minnesota
| Mine | Operator | County | Main commodity | Employees | Citations since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fischer Sand & Aggregate | Fischer Sand & Aggregate LLP | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 12 | 20 |
| UMore Park Mining Operation | Dakota Aggregates LLC | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 7 | 19 |
| Amrize Empire Plant | Amrize Mid-America Inc. | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 16 | 16 |
| County Line, Larson Pit | County Line Aggregate Inc | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 14 |
| Wash Plant #2(Randolph) | County Line Aggregate Inc | Dakota County, MN | Crushed, broken limestone | 2 | 13 |
| PBP-1 | Pine Bend Paving, Inc. | Dakota County, MN | Crushed, broken limestone | 2 | 13 |
| Hastings Quarry | Solberg Aggregate Inc. | Dakota County, MN | Crushed, broken limestone | 3 | 11 |
| Knopik Crushing Inc | Knopik Crushing Inc | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 3 | 9 |
| Lippmann | Knopik Crushing Inc | Dakota County, MN | Sand, common | 3 | 9 |
| Portable Screener | Minnesota Dirt Works | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 9 |
| KMM Burnsville Quarry | Kraemer Mining & Materials, Inc. | Dakota County, MN | Crushed, broken limestone | 34 | 7 |
| Inver Grove Pit | Bituminous Roadways, Inc. | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 5 |
| McNamara Contracting Inc | McNamara Contracting Inc | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 6 | 4 |
| Berg's Pit | McNamara Contracting Inc | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 3 |
| Finlay Powerscreener | Solberg Aggregate Inc. | Dakota County, MN | Construction sand and gravel | 2 | 3 |
US government work, public domain. Counts come from the MSHA files published on November 6, 2026. An open mine is one MSHA lists as Active, Intermittent, New Mine, Temporarily Idled or NonProducing; 13,673 were open that day. Citations, penalties, inspections and accident reports run from January 1, 2022. A citation is an inspector's allegation and an operator can contest it; the penalty is the amount MSHA first proposed, before any contest or settlement. An operator is the legal entity MSHA assesses, and a parent company is its controller. Mines run by sole proprietors or by individuals are counted in every total and are not named. This page uses MSHA data and is not endorsed or certified by MSHA. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.